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It should be deep winter, with snow, sleet and ice, but judging by the weather you'd say it's summertime across Europe. The Spanish cities of Valencia and Santander recorded 28C on Monday, while across the border in the Italian city of Torino, it was 27C. In the French Atlantic coastal city of Biarritz, it...

Roma representatives have accused a state school in the northeastern city of Iasi of deliberately segregating Roma or Gypsy pupils from Romanian pupils. The Roma Party “Pro Europe” Association claimed the school purposely moved Roma pupils into separate classes and gave them different breaks so they wouldn’t interact with Romanian pupils. The school has denied the...

The Save Romania Union has urged the government to honor a promise to list Rosia Montana, the mountain which sits on important gold reserves and is at the center of a $4.4 billion arbitration dispute, as a UNESCO heritage site. Senators Vlad Alexandrescu and Mihai Gotiu made the appeal to Prime Minister Ludovic Orban who...

Romania’s Orthodox Church as clashed with the government during the pandemic on the issue of religious freedoms. On Friday, the influential church won an important battle after the government said that Christmas services could go ahead. In recent months, clerics have pushed for services to be allowed to continue and pilgrimages to go ahead despite  soaring coronavirus cases.

President Klaus Iohannis on Tuesday urged opposition lawmakers to stop dragging their feet on a law to quarantine and hospitalize Covid-19 patients, saying the lives of hundreds of Romanians were at stake. Parliament began to debate a draft law on quarantine and isolation in response to the coronavirus pandemic on July 9, three...

Romania’s government is expected to extend the state of alert for another month when it expires this week in response to a surge in coronavirus infections in the East European country. Health Minister Nelu Tataru said Tuesday that he didn't think the government would impose further restrictions when the state of alert ended, but it...

Several major music festivals which were expected to attract thousands of spectators from home and abroad and generate millions of euros for local budgets have announced they are cancelling their 2020 editions over the coronavirus pandemic. The Untold festival which is held in the Transylvanian city of Cluj in the summer says the event...

Romania reported a fresh surge in coronavirus cases with 637 confirmed infections in the last day. The Strategic Communication Group said that 30 patients had succumbed to the disease in the past 24 hours, higher than previous days. Authorities stepped up testing after the weekend, and carried out 14,237 tests Monday...

Austria has banned commercial flights from Egypt and nine Eastern European countries including Romania in response to a surge in coronavirus cases in some parts of the continent. Direct passenger flights from Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, northern Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Egypt will be banned starting July 16. The...

Romania’s minority Liberal government says it will go to Parliament and “assume responsibility” for a contentious parole law that has seen thousands of prisoners released early from jail with hundreds re-offending and back in prison after committing violent crimes. Prime Minister Ludovic Orban, who took office last month, however warned Monday that repealing the...